Kate Christensen

Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.

American Novelist

Trudie Styler

Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.

English Actress

John Torode

Tomatoes and mozzarella work very well together because the milk is rich in summer when the grass is very very green, and makes the best mozzarella in the world, same time as the tomatoes are around and beautiful bushy basil.

Australian Chef

E. L. Konigsburg

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

American Writer

Devon Windsor

My signature dish - something I've been making since I was 10 - is angel hair pasta with shrimp and feta in a white-wine basil sauce with tomatoes, because it's absolutely amazing.

American Model

Frances Mayes

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

American Educator

Valerie June

My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars have got perfume lines that smell really bad. They've got it all wrong.

American Musician

Sirio Maccioni

Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.

Italian Chef

Gino D'Acampo

As far as Italian ingredients, I always have one of those plants of fresh basil in the house, and some mozzarella in the fridge.

Isabella Rossellini

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.

Italian Actress

Basil is commonly associated with Italian cooking, adding a sweet aroma to dishes.

Cuisine Specific

Its smell is strong and sweet, which can elevate the flavor profile of meals.

Sensory Description

Fresh basil and dried basil are used differently; the fresh variant is more aromatic.

Fresh Versus Dry

Basil as a church official is an archaic term, more historical than current.

Religious Context

The title Basil in a religious context is rarely used today and considered old-fashioned.

Usage Rarity

Basil as a name has Greek roots, often implying nobility or royalty.

Cultural Origin

The name Basil is pronounced 'BAZ-il' in American English and 'BAH-sil' in British English.

Name Pronunciation

 associate with elephants I've been over the scratch and sniff book thing with many of you before we've discussed it on the Lives safaris quite often and the thing is you've gotta have the full experience you've got to have wild aniseed wild basil jasmine elephants yeah big fan nearly but you've also

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 the world and you can't kill it but nobody recognized that the tree lives on because when you threaten its life from its roots it throws off things folk basil sprouts so the exact genetic fingerprint of this stump and any other stump in this whole region is in the

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 in those trees and we'll just take it nice and slowly if there are predators down there because of the the heat that we've had at the moment I'm just grabbing some wild basil here always good to make their hands smell nice lovely and so because of the heat they

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 published about leather basil and blues of extinction and nobody cares that piqued my interest then took the leatherbacks future into his own hands he began patrolling the beach at night to protect the turtles a brave thing to

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 it's it's some cotton and feels like quite a lot of seeds inside that cotton as well so I think that's how they disperse it but not too much about it you see as we're walking here as well lots of these herbs or the wild basil

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 leather basil and the booze of extinction and nobody cares that peaked my interest len took the leatherback's future into his own hands he began patrolling the beach at night to protect the turtles a brave thing to do

Sir David Attenborough...

 as traditional farming methods. Leafy greens like lettuce are the easiest crops to grow, but they often focus on more valuable herbs like basil and mint. Aquaponics is one of the most sustainable agricultural systems,

How a Fish Might Grow...

 waste from london's toilets sinks and gutters is carried away by a network of interconnecting ever larger pipes designed and built by sewage superstar and pioneer joseph basil jet

Where Does Your Sewage...

 father runs on basil oh really yeah we go up the damara and take a look at that when you see if you might be interested that cuz I've got more of the

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 Strawberry fields, you know the deal. Compressed watermelon, basil seeds, a little bit of strawberries up there. Back to the Bronx Brasserie,